The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-03-17

ton of the amendment of Senator Field
it was lost-yeas, 10; nays, l6.
Senator Burgess moved to add tha
liquor may be sold without prescription
in cases of great necessity and danger
Lost.
Senator Lane moved TO so amend as t
prohibit the sale of liquor for sacramento
1 or other purposes. Lost.
Senator Claiborne moved to amend b.
adding new section, providing that rail
roads, or other common carriers, shall
not receive a receipt for any barrel, box
case, keg, jag, bottle, demijohn, eggs
grapes, or any other article of merchan
disc, without full knowledge of the con
tents, where the same is to consignoI
in every local option county. Ruled GU
of order.
The bill passed to third reading, by the
following vote:
Yeas-Senators Abercombie, Allen
Armistead, Bell, Burney, Calhoun, Camp
Claiborne, Davis, Field, Frank, Garrison
Harrison, Jarvis, Mcdonald, Macmarus
Simkins, Stinson, Terrell: total, 10.
Nay-Sonators Burgess, Douglass, Hous
ton, Knittle, Lane; total, 3.
Administrations Douglass (of Grayson
county, Glasscock, Gregg, Pope, Upshaw,
Woods, Woodward.
The reformatory bill passed.
The gambling bill was called up.
Senator Lane moved TO amend so as to
leave imprisonment to the discretion of
the iuries. Lost.
Yeas-Senators Abercrombie. Burgess,
Camp, Claiborne, Douglass, of Jefferson
county; Douglass, of Grayson county;
Field, Houston, Knittle, Lane. Total, 8.
Nays-Senators Allen, ArmiStead, Bell,
Burney, Calhoun, Davis, Douglass, of
Grayson county; Frank, Garrison, Har-
ri5on, Mcdonald, Macmanus, Simkins,
Stiuson, Terrell, Woodward. Total, 1G.
Administrators Glasscock, Gregg,
Pope, Upshaw.
The bill was then engrossed and is as
follows:
Article 358-If any person shall keep or
exhibit for the purpose of gaming, any
gaming table or bank of name or descrip-
tion whatever, or any table or bank used
for gaming which has no name, any
pigeon.hole table or Jenny Lind table, or
nine or ten pin alley, used for gaming
and such pieon-hnLo table or Jenny
Lind table, or NM and ten .nin alley or al
ley of any kind or description whatever,
regardless of the numbG of plns,N als or
rings used, shall be considered as ID for
gaming, if the table fees or alley 5es, or
money, or anything of value Is bet there
on, or shall be in any manner interested
or bank, or nine or ten pin alley at any
hn IL L., ,,,l,n 6
not less twenty-five nor more than one
hundred dollars and Imprisonment in the
county Jail for not less than ten nor more
than ninety days.
The senate went into executive session
and confirmed the following appoint
ments:
Samuel Gelston, Elisha Kennedy, Fred
Forto, Christian Hers and William Kelley
pilot commissioners at Brazos Santiago,
and James II. Lyde district attorney of
the Sixth judicial district.
Adjourned until 3 p. M.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
House bill for the relief of Wilhelm
Kuleman, authorizing the issuance of a
patent for $50 acres of land to his heirs
engrossed.
House bill No. "A, prohibiting the kill
ing of fish by dynamite, etc.
House bill to provide for more speedy
count of the vote at elections passed.
House bill to provide for the election of
a district attorney in the eighteenth Judi
cial district passed to third reading.
House bill to require all issues of law in
civil jury trials to be decided by the courts
before the cases are argued before the
jury was taken up with adverse report.
Senator Bell moved the adoption OF the
report. Lost,
Senator Burgess moved to amend by
adding, providing that the court shall
have the right, after the argument is
made, to give any additional instructions
deemed necessary to give the Jury all the
law in the case" Adopted, and, after
some discussion, the bill passed to en-
grossment.
House bill No. 1893, exempting certain
counties from the inspection law, passed
to third reading, with amendments, in
Guiding Victoria, Harris, Erath aud Hous-
ton counties.
House bill No. IS, amending the corpo-
ration law, passed.
Substitute house joint resolution,
the constitution prohibiting a
foreigner from voting upon simple de-
claration of becoming citizen, was taken
up.
Senator Lane opposed the resolution.
Senator Burney made an able argument
in favor of lis passage, and stated that
in his district every intelligent German
favored some such restrictions upon
foreigners. He favored the resolution,
and believed it would rebound to the |
interest of the state. He did not want to |
give the right of suffrage to men who
did not and coull not understand its i'm
port. They should remain here at least
long enough to become acquainted with
the laws and customs of the country be-
fore being permitted to vote. No intelli-
gent foreigner, who really intended to be-
come citizen, objected to it.
Senator Macmannus made strong
speech against the resolution.
Senator Burgess moved to amend by
providing that foreigners who have de-
'lared their intention to become citizens
prior to August, 1887" Lost.
The resolution was lost. Yeas, 10; NAYS,
Ii.
Senator Frank sent up bill to further
regulate the duties of justices of the
peace.
Adjourned until Thursday at 10 o'clock.
THURSDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Roll call quorum present. Prayer by
the chaplain,
Senator Harrison entered q motion IN